[jdcamb]

With inventing a tool that I didn't actually invent. I am being presented with an opportunity to profit from it also. I have no way to contact the actual inventor. Since he made me the tool, and gave it to me and only me, and I have the only other one in existence. I am not sure how to proceed. I am thinking if I take some of the proceeds and put it in the bank for him and then down the road, if I figure a way to contact him. Then we both win.... It just seems like an opportunity I shouldn't squander... Phuck.

 

[IH8Rice]

I am thinking if I take some of the proceeds and put it in the bank for him and then down the road, if I figure a way to contact him. Then we both win.... It just seems like an opportunity I shouldn't squander... Phuck.

that would be a good idea. its money that you never expected anyway, so leaving money tucked aside for him wouldnt be a loss. make sure you keep the interest you make off of it though.
how hard is it really to find this person? did he "disappear" after he made you the tool?

edit: if you cant find him, you get to keep the money

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

is this a metaphor for you keeping a drug stash, after your distro/partner/mule got killed by the mafia?

 

[Pesqueeb]

is this a metaphor for you keeping a drug stash, after your distro/partner/mule got killed by the mafia?

 

[yuroshek]

you can store his monies in my account if needed.

PM me

 

[Ciaran]

Does the other party have a patent on the tool? No? Then get thy ass to the patent office, post haste!

Be a good American and capitalist and profit!!!

 

[jdcamb]

that would be a good idea. its money that you never expected anyway, so leaving money tucked aside for him wouldnt be a loss. make sure you keep the interest you make off of it though.
how hard is it really to find this person? did he "disappear" after he made you the tool?

edit: if you cant find him, you get to keep the money

I am thinking of donating it to a wothy cause.. We both worked for Toshiba together, We both got laid off.... I'm a weasel. Not a thief... The last contact I had with him was in Ann Arbor MI 3 years ago.... His Nextel/Sprint # goes right to message. And I have not heard back from him...

 

[IH8Rice]

I am thinking of donating it to a wothy cause..

japan needs help

congrats on the invention

 

[demo 9]

what tool? top secret? something we all have?

 

[stoney]

With Ciaran on this one; Get a patent on it. if the dude shows up, sell him the patent for $1 and ask to keep the current revenues generated. He wins longterm because you locked up the patent for him and you win until he shows up.

 

[nitsuj]

What about facebook? Seems like everyone is on it and if they AREN'T they don't deserve the windfall

 

[demo 9]

I invented it PM me

 

[johnbryanpeters]

...take some of the proceeds and put it in the bank for him and then down the road, if I figure a way to contact him. Then we both win...

This sounds sensible. Props to you for considering it.

 

[MMike]

send it to a king in Nigeria.

 

[kickstand]

finding people is not really all that hard.

facebook, linkedin, twitter, HR at your old job, zabasearch, public records, etc. The list goes on.

If you know his first and last name chances are likely you could find him.

Add a middle initial or an old phone number and the odds begin to increase pretty well....

 

[bizutch]

Pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg taught us all to make as much money off it as possible and then pay off those that come with their hand out and go about your merry way.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

JBP was in a similar situation with the invention of the wheel.